Not contested by both major parties, Preferences required, Preferences counted to completion

Candidate

Party

Votes

%

Final

%

Vescio, Michael

Independent EFF

683

2.12

Evanian, Michael

Independent

852

2.65

Cunningham, Edna

Australian Democrats

1,156

3.60

Roach, Ted

Independent

361

1.12

Begaud, Kevin

Independent

918

2.86

Knowles, Ross

Greens

1,195

3.72

Leney, Peter

Independent

190

0.59

Klinger, Steven

Independent

157

0.49

Sutton, Julie

Independent

9,489

29.52

11,737

40.35

Coleman, Bruce

Call to Australia

770

2.40

Humpherson, Andrew (Elected)

Liberal Party

15,852

49.32

17,352

59.65

Williams, William

Independent

105

0.33

Torzsok, Sandor

Independent

24

0.07

Droulers, Julien

Independent

34

0.11

Fairlie-Cuninghame, Janet

Independent

357

1.11

Formal Votes

32,143

Informal / Exhausted Votes

1,006

3.03

3,054

9.50

Total Votes / Turnout

33,149

87.10

Cause Category: Resignation - Government Job

Notes: Caused by the resignation of Terry Metherell to accept a position with the Environment Protection Agency. Metherell had resigned from the Liberal Party in October 1991, so the government had effectively engineered a vacancy in a seat the Liberal Party would recover at a by-election. Because the Greiner government was in a minority, it could not prevent the Legislative Assembly referring the matter to the Independent Commission Against Corruption, which eventually made findings of corruption under the ICAC Act. The findings were eventually ruled as being outside the powers of the ICAC to make, but by then Premier Greiner and Environment Minister Tim Moore had already resigned. Metherell never took up the offered job.